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Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions 1992 »
Series: Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1992
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451942491.012
ISBN: 9781451942491
Keywords: foreign exchange, foreign currency, exchange rate, exchange control, foreign investment, foreign currencies, exchange rates, exchange transactions, foreign trade, direct investment
Published since 1950, this authoritative annual reference is based upon a unique IMF database that tracks exchange and trade arrangements for the 187 IMF member countries, along with Hong Kong SAR, Aruba, and Curaç...

Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions 1995 »
Series: Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1995
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451942651.012
ISBN: 9781451942651
Keywords: foreign exchange, foreign currency, exchange rate, exchange control, foreign investment, exchange rates, foreign currencies, exchange transactions, direct investment, direct investments
Published since 1950, this authoritative annual reference is based upon a unique IMF database that tracks exchange and trade arrangements for the 187 IMF member countries, along with Hong Kong SAR, Aruba, and Curaç...

Anticipating Balance of Payments Crises--The Role of Early Warning Systems : The Role of Early Warning Systems »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Catherine Pattillo , Andrew Berg , Gian Milesi-Ferretti , and Eduardo Borensztein
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 January 2000
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557758286.084
ISBN: 9781557758286
Keywords: currency crises, probability, balance of payments, contagion, currency crisis
Recent years have witnessed an increase in the frequency of currency and balance of payments crises in developing countries. More important, the crises have become more virulent, have caused widespread disruption t...

Appendix II. Behavior of Different Types of Financial Flow »
Source: Country Insurance : The Role of Domestic Policies
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Paolo Mauro , Torbjorn Becker , Jonathan Ostry , Romain Ranciere , and Olivier Jeanne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 April 2007
ISBN: 9781589066076
Keywords: Insurance supervision, Insurance legislation, Insurance regulations, bonds, international reserves, domestic currency, currency crises, international financial
Data Description...

Appendix II Foreign Direct Investment »
Source: The Lao People's Democratic Republic : Systemic Transformation and Adjustment
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Ichiro Otani , and Chi Pham
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 May 1996
ISBN: 9781557755605
Keywords: banking, exchange rate, foreign exchange, privatization, foreign investment
The reform strategy implemented in the Lao P.D.R. since 1985 has recognized the importance of external resources—both official and private—in accelerating economic transformation and in emulatin...

Appendix VII. Executive Board Decision on Discrimination for Balance of Payments Reasons »
Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1960
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1960
ISBN: 9781616351724
Keywords: gold, balance of payments, exporters, export prices, money supply
The following decision deals exclusively with discriminatory restrictions imposed for balance of payments reasons....

Are Australia's Current Account Deficits Excessive? »
Source: Are Australia's Current Account Deficits Excessive?
Volume/Issue: 1996/85
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): C. McDermott , and Paul Cashin
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 1996
ISBN: 9781451850703
Keywords: current account, current account deficit, current account deficits, external borrowing, current account balance
This paper compares the evolution of the Australian current account balance over the period 1954–94 against an optimal current account derived from a consumption-smoothing model. The findings indicate that t...

4 Are Current Account Imbalances in ASEAN Countries a Problem? »
Source: Macroeconomic Issues Facing ASEAN Countries
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 July 1997
ISBN: 9781557756374
Keywords: current account, exchange rate, fdi, reer, real exchange rate
1 This case has been made with respect to both Malaysia and Thailand, whose deficits widened to over 8 percent of GNP in 1995. In Indonesia, the external deficit, a...

Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development? »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1
Volume: 52
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064195
Keywords: recessions, recession, asian crisis, probability, probabilities, Capital Stock, Convergence (economics), Correlation (statistics), Decomposition Method, Economic Development. Econometric Models
This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss: whether output recovered after the Asian crisis; the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth; whether interdepe...

Are Workers' Remittances a Hedge Against Macroeconomic Shocks? the Case of Sri Lanka »
Source: Are Workers' Remittances a Hedge Against Macroeconomic Shocks? the Case of Sri Lanka
Volume/Issue: 2007/22
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Marta Ruiz-Arranz , and Erik Lueth
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2007
ISBN: 9781451865868
Keywords: Workers&;amp;#x2019; remittances, Cyclicality, Macroeconomic Shock, Vector Error Correction Model, remittances, remittance, remittance receipts, cointegration, International Factor Movements: Other, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development,
We estimate a vector error correction (VEC) model for Sri Lanka to determine the response of remittance receipts to macroeconomic shocks. This is the first attempt of its kind in the literature. We find that remitt...